I just added this to FightSkillz, and it looks amazing. It's like other lightboxes, thickboxes, greyboxes etc. When you click on images, and certain links it dims the background, and loads a larger version of the image or the linked content. The ShadowBox JS plugin for Wordpress doesn't have all the features of the original shadowbox.js, like maps and external sites, but it does take care of images, audio, and video. The plugin does it automatically so I don't have to add special tags to content links, although there is a manual mode, and has tons of customization behind the scenes. It auto generates galleries with the images in each post and it's just really really awesome. To see it at work on FightSkillz:

• visit the ChalkBoard gallery here.
• visit this post and click on my sketch, it'll load a hi-res version which may take a few seconds, so be patient. Once it's loaded you can drag it around to see the whole thing.
• visit the Pixels, Ink & Graphite category.

To get the original Shadowbox.js for use on non-Wordpress sites:

• visit the Shadowbox.js page here.
• visit the author Michael J. I. Jackson.

To get ShadowBox JS plugin for Wordpress:

• visit the plugin page on Wordpress here.
• visit the author's plugin page here.

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